Chap. 385.—An ACT to create a school district out of the town and neighborhood
of Pennington Gap, Lee county, Virginia.

Approved February 17, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the follow-
ing territory in Lee county, including the town of Pennington Gap, and
bounded as follows: Beginning at the corner of the Jonesville and
Rocky Station magisterial districts, on the top of the Stone or Cumber-
land mountain; thence southward with line dividing said two magis-
terial districts, crossing Cane creek to the top of Cane creek ridge;
thence eastwardly with the top of said ridge to a large pond south of J.
Kvle Parson’s dwelling-house; thence southeastwardly a straight line to
J. Morison’s Smyth’s old mill dam; thence eastwardly to the top of the
Dig hill; thence northwardly a straight line to John T. Hughes’ dwell-
ing-house; thence a due north line to the top of said Stone or Cumber-
land mountain, and thence with top of said mountain westwardly,
crossing the North Fork of Powels river at the Hanging rock, to the
beginning be, and the same is hereby, made and constituted a separate
free school district, and to be known as the Pennington Gap school dis-
trict of Lee county, and to be governed by the general laws of the state
with respect to free schools, in so far as the same are not inconsistent
with the provisions of this act.

2. On all the taxable property within said Pennington Gap school
district, the board of supervisors of said county shall annually lay a
levy of not less than fifty cents on the one hundred dollars worth of
property therein, as and fora district fund to pay teachers in said school
district. So much of the district fund raised by this act, as the trustees
thereof may deem proper, may be applied to the payment of ‘the
teachers who may be lawfully employed in the district created by this
act.

3. The clerk of the district board of school trustees for said district
shall, as soon as practicable after their appointment, take a census of
the school population in said district and report the result to the county
and state superintendents of free schools, and thereafter according to
the provisions of section one thousand four hundred and sixty-two, of
the code of Virginia for eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

4. This act shall be in force from its passage.